Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.